InfinitePulse

For five years, Marvin Lewis has been the beneficiary of fawning local media, yours truly included. A 12-year Bengals beatdown before Lewis arrived made those of us who survived it grateful for small favors, such as the miracle of 8-8. This ain't New York or Philly. Marvin's had it easy around here.

For that, we get this, on Monday:

"I tell (players) all the time, 'Don't try to explain it to (media), because (media) won't understand it,' " Lewis said.

No, probably not. Football is a game for scholars. Here's something else that escaped the stupid media's grasp, and maybe yours, too:

How a guy with three career starts at quarterback could tear up the Bengals defense for three and a half quarters. How a Cleveland team a few bad plays from Three Mile Island could drop a 51-45 embarrassment on Marvin's Bengals. And why, week after year, we try to make sense of the lame and the obvious:

"We just have to play better" is frequently paired with "We just have to keep playing" and is often followed by "we're going to move forward."

Those answers might insult the media's intelligence. If we had any.

Look: I like Lewis as much as anyone. He's done a good job here. Given the organization for which he works, he's done a very good job. But treating the fawning media like a footwipe isn't necessary, OK?

The Enquirer - Lewis takes media for fools

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BengalBoy

Couldn't agree more, his standard replies of "we need to execute better" + "we need to play smarter" + "we will move forward" etc etc really have started to grate on even people like me who have backed him for ages now despite his lack of ability to either sort the D out himself or bring in the right guy for the job.

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InfinitePulse

Well, you also have to look at it in the sense of how bad they were before he came...

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BengalBoy

I have talked about this on another forum, but the long and the short of it is this, If you look at our team as it stands now, the majority of the key guys CJ / TJ / RJ / Levi / Anderson where all there before lewis came in. And at the end of the day, anyone would have drafted Palmer at no.1 it was a no brainer.

So when you start to dig deeper in to it he really hasn't done a whole lot to improve this team on offense. Then you look at the Defence, and yeh sure he has changed it a whole load, but lets face facts here. Is the defence any better now than 5 years ago ? the answer is probably not, its just at time they look better because Palmer & Co, have racked up a lead and teams have to chase games.

Marvin is supposedly a Defensive Guru and yet he imo hasn't moved this defense along 1 bit since he arrived. The offence is better but how much of that is down to Marvin when you consider 80% of it was here before he came, i bet if you had kept Dick around long enough this Offence would be what it is now, and i hate to say it but the defence would probably be better too

Marvin has made soo many questionable Draft choices its getting beyound a joke. The last 2 drafts we have needed Defensive guys not backup RB's and WR's and 3rd string QB's.

He needs to make strong decisions from here on out and start telling us more than the standard lines, otherwise as far as im concerned he can walk.

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InfinitePulse

So what you're saying is that he's really done nothing at all to at least bring the franchise out of the cellar like it was before>?

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